meburdick
Platinum Member
I also agree with the comments about amateurs trying to jerk a tree stump (or whatever) out.
I've said this before... We don't know WHAT they were doing. They may have been doing everything "the right way" and this was from equipment failure.
Who knows what kind of chain they were using, too?
That could be the core of why this happened, or it could be essentially irrelevant.
What I believe we should all be focused on from this are two things:
- This was an unfortunate incident that has prematurely ended someone's life and brought suffering to the lives around them far too early.
- There are right ways and wrong ways of doing things, and we should discuss those separately from what happened in VA. We don't know the actual details and anything we state surrounding the events are nothing more than absolute speculation. We do not have to assume that what happened in VA was the result of incorrect actions (using a strap instead of a chain, putting sudden tension on a chain instead of gradual, etc) in order to discuss ways of pulling stumps, moving trees, etc in ways that are as safe as we can make them.